How to Use bloodlust in a Sentence

bloodlust

noun

• On the trail that skirts the marsh grass, a dense cloud of bloodlust envelops the visitor.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Their lust for power is matched by the bloodlust that Mary Parrish saw in the Tulsa mobs.
  — Anneliese M. Bruner, CNN, 27 May 2021
• Can the ethical acts of Burnham and the crew make up for Lorca's madness and bloodlust?
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
• But Squid Game was a blunt instrument, a melodrama weaponized for memes and bloodlust.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
• Rumor has it one vampire still resides there, trapped by their bloodlust.
  — Shelly Tan, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2021
• But what kind of bloodlust would lead someone to celebrate his decision to be there in the first place, knowing the tragedy that followed?
  — David Faris, The Week, 23 Nov. 2021
• The series delves into the world of the games—a world characterized by bloodlust, greed, the pursuit of power and corruption.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• However, it is also cursed and has a habit of amping up its user’s bloodlust.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Michael, in his quirky, eccentric bloodlust, can just keep going and going.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 20 Oct. 2018
• Editor’s picks But the Miami Heat, risen from the grave and playing on pure bloodlust, could not beat everyone with strength of will.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2023
• The hosts have been consumed by bloodlust, leaving humans as hapless underdogs in a hell of their own making.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2018
• Of course, this presumed there was a way to take care of everybody while still satisfying the bloodlust of the conservative base.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Sep. 2017
• These scenes aren’t any more convincing than the ones that preceded them — from the spurts of blood to the bloodlust behind each pull of the trigger, would-be climaxes feel like bad theater.
  — Michael Nordine, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
• Yet this is not the vicious lynching of a Trump-surrogate that the right-wing press are keen to portray, nor a ritual expression of New York Democrats' bloodlust.
  — Kate Maltby, CNN, 12 June 2017
• The movie also clarifies that Michael's immortality and bloodlust are the result of a Druid curse.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• Marko’s troubled relationship with pacifism both stems from childhood abuse and his fear of his own bloodlust.
  — Shaan Amin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
• Stripped of their bloodlust, what, after all, are vampires and zombies but insomniacs with bad taste?
  — Ron Charles critic, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
• Outside, the bloodlust was running deep and cold as workers inside the jail grounds fashioned a makeshift gallows out of wood under a carnival tent, set up to shield the gawkers.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2019
• Trail of Lightning begins long after Maggie and Neizgháni have split up due to his concern over her bloodlust and and extreme violence.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 26 June 2018
• The rise-of-the-antihero genre is an old trope, going back to special editions of comic books that would explain Lex Luthor’s bloodlust or the childhood neglect at the heart of the Joker’s nihilism.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2020
• The Longhorns appeared locked-in at the start of a rivalry game that tends to lack much (or any) of the bloodlust and ferocity that accompanies the annual football game.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• Taking the time to ripen Jon’s prey only makes pulling the trigger on his bloodlust increasingly difficult.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
• But wildlife advocates see these events as an abuse of the West’s wildlife heritage and pointless celebrations of cruelty and bloodlust.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• There was no romantic period, the honeymoon didn’t work out and the bloodlust of our opponents has shown itself.
  — Evan Gershkovich, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• There’s just something about wildly infeasible bloodlust that keeps us coming back for more.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2021
• But for those hoping to slake their bloodlust a little sooner, there’s a whole world of sanguinary anime — with and without vampires — out there just waiting for viewers to sink their teeth into.
  — John Maher, Vulture, 4 June 2021
• Leonidas divorcing a Persian from his leg in 300—as baddie and limb pinwheel on different axes—gives us a focusing beat that amps up our bloodlust.
  — Mary H. K. Choi, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2011
• The cult of violence, the appeal to young-male rage and bloodlust, the celebration of a robotic urge to fight to the end—Hollywood has been injecting all of this into the global id for the better part of a century.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
• Hunting parties will chase chimps and monkeys with remarkable bloodlust.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Hutchison deserves major kudos for his ultra-menacing portrayal of Tooms, whose eyes turn yellow when the bloodlust is upon him.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Aug 2024